Spain Supercup: Real Madrid vs Barcelona

Game Information

Sunday, August 13| Domingo 13 de Agosto

20:00 GMT

Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain

Match Presentation

The start of the season in La Liga of Spain, and there is no better way to do it but with El Clasico. Real Madrid and Barcelona clash to define the champion of the Supercopa of Spain where the Champion of La Liga and La Copa de España from last season face off.

Real Madrid

Zidane's team had an excellent start in their official season, after winning the match for the European Super Cup against Manchester United by a score of 2-1 they get to this important match with the illusion of getting a good result to have a good start in their home country.

With the return of Cristiano Ronaldo from his vacations, Zidane will have his star player to dispute the first classic of the season. This will make things a bit easier since this cup is played with a 2 game format (Away/Home) and the first match will be held at the Camp Nou, therefore Madrid must obtain the most favorable result possible in this game in order to have an easier game at Madrid in the return game and thus secure the title.

Also the Real players understand the difficult situation that the Catalan team should be going through with Neymar's game, which could be a double-edged sword since although this was a hard blow for them, the most certain thing is that the Catalans will seek with more enthusiasm to obtain this title to turn the page and demonstrate their fans that the departure of the Brazilian star will not change the hunger for titles that the team has. That is why Real Madrid must go with everything in this match at the Nou Camp.

Barcelona

After an excellent pre-season where absolutely all the matches in the International Champions Cup where dominated by Barcelona, they received a very hard blow just at the beginning of the training sessions waiting for the first official match of La Liga. Neymar left the team, ending with the most dangerous attack trident in the world of football, the MSN, to be part of Paris Saint Germain, setting a world record with the cost of his signing, the French club had to cancel the clause of more than 200 Millions of Euros to free the player in order to sign it.

That is why this game is even more important, this match has become a challenge for the team to demonstrate the fans that, with or without the Brazilian star the team has the same ambition of each season, win all the competitions in which Barcelona participates, and with this classic the players will want to show that even without Neymar the squad possesses the weapons to beat Real Madrid.

The statistics are on the side of the Culé in this game, since historically in the last seasons it has been nearly impossible to obtain favorable results in the Nou Camp for Real Madrid. We must also take into account that in the preseason in the United States where the team was measured against the best teams in the world (including Real Madrid, who they beat) that the players are comfortable with their new coach and the style of play that the same Proposes, and with all this said we could say that Barcelona has a small advantage to play at home for this first encounter.

Players who are not available to the coach: for injury, Vermaelen (Central defender), Gomes (Midfielder) and Semedo (Lateral Right) due to an accumulation of yellow cards. The formation for this match is expected to be 4-3-3.1

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